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Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks didn't move quickly enough to correct some obvious problems with her financial disclosure forms.

The Iowa Democratic Party on Monday asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks 2020 financial disclosure, saying the ophthalmologist representing Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District omitted

Iowa City Press-Citizen Correction: A statement initially attributed to U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks campaign spokesperson, Eric Woolson, was made by the campaigns attorney, Alan Ostergren. On Wednesday, a congressional committee punted a motion to dismiss Democrat Rita Hart’s election contest of the result of Iowas 2nd Congressional District election in November before first considering the merits of her appeal. The committee vote fell on party lines, but not before members of both p...

More than a month after Democrat Rita Hart identified 22 ballots she claimed were legally cast but not counted, an attorney for Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks is now looking for rejected ballots.

Heres the relationships Biden has with leaders in Iowa Share Updated: 6:20 PM CST Jan 20, 2021 Share Updated: 6:20 PM CST Jan 20, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript OPTIMISTIC. CYNTHIA: BRUCE HUNTER HAS KNOWN BIDEN FOR 18 YEARS AND HAS NO DOUBT IOWANS WILL HAVE A LISTENING EAR IN WASHINGTON. >> WHETHER IT BE GETTING RID O DISASTERS, I THINK THIS PRESIDENT WILL BE THERE FOR US. CYNTHIA: IOWA FARMERS WHO STOOD WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP THROUGH THICK AND THIN HOPE THEY’...

Des Moines Register Criticism connected to Sen. Joni Ernsts past comments about the COVID-19 pandemic went viral on social media after the Republican this week became the first Iowan in Congress to publicly receive the vaccine.   On Monday, Sawyer Hackett, the communications director for former Housing and Urban Development Secretary and Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro, tweeted a screenshot of a news headline about Ernsts September comments side-by-side with a photo of Er...

By Tom Barton, Quad-City Times Republican Congresswoman-elect Mariannette Miller-Meeks’ campaign said she was mistakenly added to a letter signed by 25 other Republican representatives-elect calling on the U.S. House to investigate irregularities in the 2020 presidential election. Miller-Meeks’ campaign on Wednesday said she did not sign and did not agree to be included on the letter sent to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., asking Congress to “thoroughly investigate” unsub...

TOM BARTON Democratic former Iowa state Sen. Rita Hart of Wheatland on Thursday defended her plans to file a petition with the Democratically-controlled U.S. House challenging the outcome in Iowas close 2nd Congressional District race. Congresswoman-elect Mariannette Miller-Meeks says every legal vote was counted in tight Iowa 2nd Congressional District race, and Rita Hart had ample opportunity to appeal any discrepancies in court, rather than ask the U.S. House to intervene. ...